First off, I would like to say... I apologize for the number of users that answer with links and malware files. Anyways--
Families stayed in touch with loved ones overseas during WWII primarily through the mail.
 
        
             
        
        
        
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Why did people want to go on the Oregon Trail?
OREGON TRAIL, one of several routes traveled in the mid-nineteenth century by pioneers seeking to settle in the western territories. Over a period of about thirty years, roughly 1830 to 1860, some 300,000 Americans crowded these overland trails. The Oregon Trail was first traveled in the early 1840s.
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They had cattle because of the hide and tallow trade. also they were used for food products like meat and dairy if it was a dairy cow.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
The answer is severe drought